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"The least disruptive way would be to extract the logic into procedures in a service program. Then modify your black box program to call these procedures. That way, new programs get the flexibility of using ILE, but your existing programs can continue to call the &amp;quot;black box&amp;quot; without change. As to the benefit, that is subjective. Multiple variable scopes is usually enough to justify it for me personally. Also, if you never advance your existing codebase, your new development will always be held back by it. Br..."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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